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THE CONYERS WEEKLY
VOLUME IX.
turner has shot,
0« rabbits in
( pped je&r. and yet the pests are so
last that he has
Kemorzmch. Switzerland,
nr c destroy more aphides
IU , that spiders than do all
enemies of trees
-eating birds. His views have
e insect observations on conifer
en ve rifled by broad-leafed and
few trees
s trees, a
jiple trees._____ lands
; iithougb the best of the public
it is eucouraging to note that
f -one, unsurveyed about
lLo (ju remain
acres in Colorado, 12,000,000
Uoa&, aaarl y 30,000,000 in Califof
f .9000 g’000,000 000 in Dakota, Idaho, 7,000,000 7,000,000 in
fc, Lesota, 39,000,000 in in Nevada, 74,.
MimMontana, 31,000,000 in Ltah,
' 20,000,000 in Washington
L( than
Wort, and so on.
lieutenant Arthur L. Wagner, United
fates army, in an article in the Journal
mSti'litary Service Institution on the
[ilitsty Ls, and naval statement policy of the made United
alludes to a some
Li ago by General McClellan would that have the
ieision bills of the civil war
Lined Llmeu a regular army of 30,000 addi
from the Mexican war to the
[reakin? out of the rebellion, The
rriter goes on then to say that tbe pen
junbills have now reached a total which
bid have defrayed the expenses of an
imyof 4.7,000 men from the Seminole
rwto the outburst of the civil strife.
its recent church fair in YVorcester,
Im,, there was great curiosity to seo
Ld hear a new musical instrument, the
kumaniphone, which was exhibited in
k large ante-room of thc hall. The
Urumcnt] roved to be young Indies
■resenting the tone of the scale, ar
hged behind a screen, showing only
feiibnib nnd shoulders. They wore
mtoiMsks reaching to thc mouth, and
paid the neck of each was susphnded
ijuihbon the number of the scale rep
imtid, A young lady stood in front,
prho. with a waud, played tunes by
joMiijto the one whose number was
line wanted, which was promptly
■tad. liounds and other pieces were
k making a unique and amusing
iii,
I Itisnot generally known that tbe Falls
Ifft. Anthony, which, years ago, used
■o be one of the picturesque sights of the
■ftthwest, and which were visited by
Ihousands, iommercial have been destroyed by the
needs of Minneapolis. In
j[S(5the IMS. When lown had a population of but
the falls were most ad
hired Minneapolis had no existence, was
M? undreamed of. They had grad
pllj Rization yielded to the requirements of civ
until very little is left to remind
lit one of their former attractiveness,
pare pterthe known Mississippi persons to cross the bridges
■here and, while looking
the series of cascades had been, to
Noire what had become of them. Thus
pie that beauty is compelled to give way
r utility in the course of what we call
progress
Economy in sending cable messages is
■Mways desirable. Relative, in Now
Pwk of a lady of social celebrity in
’w, hearing she was ill, cabled that if
'”as not better they would straight
"yNI, and asked for instructions what
Mo. The answer came “no better.”
p h this and nothing more. The rela
on the next steamer, and
astonishment was great upon arriv
n® Paris to find the supposed stricken
| . giving although a dinner simple, party. The ex
was very
q, ?' fcab le answer had been
i,
i res Ponse to inquiry whether
^tives t e lady’s should health. sail, and “better”
jY'^f Punctuation Economy and
cost the “party
e * coad part” nearly thousand
okrs. a
L P ^ ad tbe issues which have
printed the number of post
L kZ“ > aElh se P ar ute design which
maCtUal use is less than 4,300.
UK L| / Md a T 80me Were of issued the ab °ut the
k earliest speci
rWe ’ althou g h
piffling Th ^ k “ 0Wn t0 bring
I bed Ike 6 P nces wb ich af
to tx are
Jitatii, t L m ln ■ th ^ * catalogues. Dealers
■Defies'oi ‘Ht!sY n and ew if of tbere tbese ra7 '« r va
r Cr ls any call
|%is£ Very ready t0 strike a
p 6 Colleetpr R fter a little
P^alue^T 16 thCTe ^ 80m#
the priceiist
‘ J ^ the V °" ^ a P erson 'wishes
I® 1 4 3 °° 'alue dect of a stamp he
1 T to sell jZ ' i° n to a dealer and
■4 jtoUK) ’ ' “ **f® to say he would
° ffer of more than
would be ' i? Uck \ y 6 if catalogue he price, and
got even that.
CONYERS. GEORGIA. FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 11, 1887.
THE EOT OF L.
We love—the grave is deu,>:
■We trust—our faith’s denied;
Cur storehouse with treus-'. ' ~
They moulder at our si
So, while t he years pass by
We gather naught of wor“
And can but answer wearily
“It is the lot of earth.”
“Oh, mournful voice,” he said.
“Wherefore thy mournfulness?
Ours ever are the sainted dead,
And near are they to bless.
Whose store in Heaven is laid
Shall never suffer dearth,
And God ne’er yet a soul betrayed—
“This is ‘the lot of earth.’ ”
—Clare Everest.
HOW IT HAPPENED.
by lizzie i, folsom.
Creak, creak, went the rigging.
YYhirr-r-r, went the wind through it.
and Tearing and straining at the cording,
if it tossing the great steamer about as
were a toy, the wind caught at the
masts and made them groan and quiver,
then, in sheer wantonness, gathered up a
mighty wave and sent it tearing, a white
sheet of foam, clear across the deck,
And the passengers, most of them who
were huddled together in the cabin,
shivered and exchanged glances of com
miseration, not devoid, iu some cases, of
very humanfear.
Whirr-r-r went the wind; and caught,
on its way, a jaunty, red, knitted cap,
twirled it aloft in derision, then left it
bobbing desolately about at the mercy of
the waters, and prepared to give atteu
tion to further dishevelment of the
wavy, dark head leaning over the bul
warks. There was a dismayed cry, and
two hands gra-tied wildly at the empty
air, returning' to hold to the small,
shapely head, lest it should follow.
“That’s a pitv 1 It was such a pretty
hat 1” said ‘
a masculine voice
“Yes. wasn’t it?” in dolorous, wind
tossed quaver.
Then they looked at each other a mo
ment in silence, and then laughed, soft
ly, spoke heartily, with youth’s gladness. He
first, quickly and positively:
‘ JSorgive me for speaking to you, but
it was such a chance. Et c wanted to
know' you all along. My name is Neil
Blake, andllivein Boston. May I talk
to you? Bo you mind?”
“JVIynameis Eugenie Grant,and Hive
in Buffalo. I think I do not mind.”
And they leaned together, clinging to
the bulwarks, and watched the bobbing
red cap till it was lost to view; then she
pulled her water-proof hood over her
m Fou? 1 £iro r ”'f“m
four days he had been Liverpool. victim For the
a to
charms of th ■ young woman who then
sat beside composedly in dripping waterpi oof
him. He had seen her as she
came on boaid, holding her gray skirts
daintily about her,while her lace-edged
thought petticoats he peeped had from beneath. He
never seen a prettier fig
ure than that outlined by the gray suit,
nor softer,lovelier eyes than the ones that
glanced at him, and looked awav—to
glance again. He had wanted so much
to know" her, but she had seemed shy ;
true, she had peeped at him from behind
the floral tower in the centre of the table;
she had looked at him and laughed
when, the first rough day, he supported
his next neighbor had in gasping misery from
the table,but he found no chance to
speak to her. She had become prettier
upon close inspection than he had at first
thought,and most distractingly so in the
ill-fated red cap, like from under which her
eyes had shone twin, laughing made stars.
So von o“tL mav hpverv eSe sure that he
the most of the cap and
leaning on one elbow, talked to her
most earnestlv and confidingly “scape— • he
should give her no chance to
not indeed that she showed anv incli
nation tc desert her damp rope t oil for
the feemed rrorcreons linholsterv of the salon
She very contented, crossing her
small feet in their rubber boots, and set
tlino- ifdid herself eomfortablv
not take them lono- wentlnto to grow con
fidential, and before they din
ner she had the pleasin'* assur
ance that he was the only child of a
fpther Unf Zt who defft in railroads—well something D er
“dealt” but as
sweeping sweeping and and enviable enviaoie, mi Eugenie en>e was
sure. rifhted g 4 thnu^h ld , n e ,f 0 ! 1 ° ^would d ° Lr wa V n, L
xmi never bebAve U
perately sick on the water w Tt Iris iXtibt do ” bt
fuHf the last fact produced «»d, the the regret
it naturally should. as days
blessing that mamma was^ was safelv safel y
stowed away jn inv«»bility
Perhaps it was just as well, for ot
wise they might not have en.oyea tne
lovely moonlight nights that loiiowea
the stormy day; those nights wneno
think of sleep was sacrilege when me
whole world seemed flooded with moon
bcams soft yetlow moonbeams when
the s a e y s p S ’ J ‘ f
blinked f r TJ nles
that that blinked and and blinked m an e er
widemng road that led st aighto int0 into
heaven. Eugenie s , '"horizon
shining If s ^ ra! * t ^® mnA d be°ims - ht f , nht simke
m ■ the dangerous moonbeams, n and and
to each other softly an and her
things a low-voiced mystcrj
dark eyes drooped before the near, e^r
gaze of his brown ones. Oh. it w«a «rj|
well that mamma was qm.e « invahE
They talked of the ri d cap that had led
to then acquaintance but he said she
looked more lovely with that soit, white
affair about her head and she was very
glad he thought her lovely, and foolish
!y told him so. After that, perhaps, talked to it
was not strange that, he
“’Genie,” and maybe, it was happened possible
that ouce or twice h!s hand to
lie on hers and neither of them seemed
to know.
It had grown to be quite a serious
thing for both by the time New York
harbor was an immediate possibility;
and the last night out, as they parted in
their sheltered corner, he held fast both
her hands, and the two shadowed heads
on the deck melted into one—at any rate
that is ihe way it looked, and Eugenie
ran with hot, red cheeks to the cabin.
She next morning all was hub-bub;
the bustle of disembarking; the nervous
furry of righteous desire to evade mislaid the
custom officers; the eollectingof
luggage, all made the scene a lively one.
Eugenie was in her state-room, frantical¬
ly trying to make one satchel do the work
of two, when a rap at her door was fol¬
lowed by Neil’s voice.
“Please do a favor for me,” he said,
in his emphatic way. “Wear this ring
off the boat for me. It s very valuable;
a friend sent by me for it, but I don’t
know”—with smiling eyes—“that I shall
let him have it now. Y r ou wear it, and
I il come to your hotel to-night for it—
if I must take it; but I hope—you know
what, ’Genie!”
He was gone, and Eugenie stood with
happy blushes on her fair face, clasping
tight the small package be, containing she said the
Eng. rier Eng, it might if
so, and wils there any doubt what she
would say? She pressed it to her lips.
“Hurry, ’Genie ” cried a querulous
voice - “hurry, child!”
She started, and tore open the pack
a S e with eager haste, bringing ring. Her forth face on
the end of her linger a
fell. YVhat a wretched little thing! A
cameo of cheapest variety, and consider
ahly too large for her slender fingers,
“Worse than ordinary.” said Eugenie,
“What does he mean by asking me to
wear such a paltry affair! Well, I don’t
care,” she decided, at last, “but be
needn't have said it was very valuable,”
and it is greatly to be feared that Eu
genie’s Th door cuckoo shut forcibly the clock after the her. hotel
e on in
parlor had just screaohed for 9 o clock
"'hen Neil r;in U P the sta,rs and tapped
on the door of the parlor allotted to “J.
D. Grant, wife and daughter, Buffalo.
h ery handsome and eager he looked,
and it is small wonder that Eugenie
blushed bnghily as he took her hands.
.’ bat a s w .' d arc ;, bo sa ld ! ad l
the white , billows of , lace that , fell
mirln g
about her, leaving bare the soft neck and
rounded aims. “How much time can
you give me?’
“Not much; it . is .. time to go „ But , T I
see 7 0U to-morrow won t I. I ere
« y°! lr l ' vo been afraid I should
lose it it is so large for me tak
She holds it out to him. He s it,
and " Mth 14 botb ber bands ’
“Thenyou will keep the other, ,„ Genie? .
“"A .
other." ..id E„.
* "'“‘S h diamond, of what
* e conr.e,
sa PP ose *
‘ ‘Thediamond ” in . amazement. ‘There
was no diamond .
He stared a moment and then laughed
Oh. come now. I ha. a a joke, an
IE laugh at it by-and-by, but jus no
! mo * e interested in something else
ln
But ther e was “° dl “. d , > ^hat u ± do
you mean , by saying so. in won er
■
lsell , s , lace flushed, ., , , and j his v voice • was
more than , unusually positive—almost of
fensively so, Eugenie thought, as he
sa ' d
You know , per,ectly r . well ,, what , , I T
mean alld - f° r g lve ™«, bat lk 13 in ™ ther
poor taste to continue that unwelcome
“I don’t know what , , you are talking + n • «.
about ™ re .y° . shc ur vah.ablc r ?P bed - with ring; *!&}?■ if there was {
any diamond about it I failed to see it I
abad have to Wlsh y° u S ood evening,Mr.
B lake -
‘‘Of course I did not ask you to wear
contemptuous designation of the
cameo. “It was simply in the package
with the other the diamond that you do
not seem able to remember.
How da you!” cried Eugenie _
“ re angry
“You are telling a falsehood. I apa
shall-‘‘ as thc Pa door P a: opened 'lld^-he he ^avTl says I
have stolen , a ring, and subsided into a
crushed, tearful heap on the sofa.
! 'apa Grant was a portly pompous
gentleman, with a great deal of gold
watch chain across a broad expanse of
white vest.
Very deliberate and particular, he re
quired that the matter should be fully
ex lained twice by his weeping daugh
ter, before expressing an opinion.
“You are an impudent young rascal,”
said Papa Grant. “Who gave you leave
to address my daughter at all?”
<« A11 j; caa sav , sir,” persisted Grant” Neil,
dl I “is that I gave to Miss
__ inot >( en i e any more. Alas !)—a pack
a ^ S e containing a diamond ring, which
she now dec li ne sto produ- e.” i
At this there was a fresh explosion of
sobs from behind the handkerchief, and
^ high heeJs (Ju „ wibily into the car
^ Fapa Grant swelled with offended
nityj and for a momen t it looked as
if lNeiPs chance for a safe exit were not
fl t i ”’ but there was a new arrival
upon th scene .
Fair and slight and delicate, but with
a self possession and sweet calmness that
reau re luced the white vest, calmed Eugenie’s “_
andreagsured al , at onc the
heretofore invisible mamma
“You are sure the ring was in the
package, Mr. Blake?” after a third ex
P had transpired. i
( ’ „ gaid Neil drm y
Jt not ’ ^ Eugenie, efch as firmly,
lnen they t ey g kre d at other.
n never do , said Mrs .
E , m d; “Mr. Blake, I
Uw <”^1,1 jom ca ^ be h j, a £ gentleman. I
th nk ^ ^ . ble tbat
, ]d t t0 to %%^ deceive us “7 ” Neil
b° w ® d t equally
impo that ' m v y daughter o sho Id do
^ f ^ Xed mistake ”
^, T Tbe ' e ls s 7 0 e b
j ents in a breatn.
“There must be some mistake,” re¬
peated the mother, calmly. “Eugenie
may have overlooked the ring in her
huiry. Of course you are sure you did
not, my dear. But it may be.” She pon¬
dered a moment while Neil and Eugenie
watched her breathlessly.
“If we could,” she said, at last, “if
we could go on the boat, before our
state room had been swept—do you think
it possible, Joseph?”
He of thc gold watch chain thus ap¬
pealed “Absurd! to, sniffed contemptuously.
Out of the question! The
whole affair is ridiculous, and conies from
allowing your daughter to make indis¬
criminate acquaintances, against which I
particularly warned you. 1 set the whole
matter aside.”
But the calm-voiced little woman was
a power in the household, and, after a
little, Neil was despatched for a carriage,
and Eugenie to takeorl herpretty party
dress and bathe her tear-stained face.
Neil was very wretched as he helped
Mrs. Grant into a carriage, and When
Eugenie flounced by him and stared
stonily, with red, angry eyes at him, he
felt that he had nothing to li e for, and
climbed up by the driver a very abject
and miserable young man.
muddy Alter a great deal of driving about
and streets, loss of talking, of arguing, found
of of temper, the party
themselves at thc di-or of the state-room
Eugenie had bid a fond good by at noon.
She darted forward, ahead of the rest,
and her eyes sought eagerly about its
limited area. She kicked away with the
tip of her shoe the pile of papers in the
corner, and pounced down upon the
pink jeweler’s paper that had held the
cameo. Her face flushed, her eyes
brightened, and little dimples came and
went as she drew forth from it a tiny box
which, tillating opened, sent the out glittering, within. scin¬
rays from gem
The lost ring! Down under a pile of
rubbish, waiting to be swept out by care¬
less hands, had lain the little package
that had caused so much heart-ache and
so many tears.
“It’s well I suggested coming.” said
Papa Gra it. “I don’t know' how I hap¬
pened to think of it. Take care of tint
step, Agnes,” and Neil was left alone.
Left alone; with droop’ng head and a
very real ache at his heart. And so this
was the end of it all: of the moonlight
nights; of the whispered words; of the
clasped h inds. And he must prepare to
forget it all. The curving rosy mouth,
the shining eyes. Forget them! it would
be very hard to do.
There came a soft touch on his arm
and a jaunty hat rested against his shoul¬
der.
“Oh, Neil! How could I know the
wretched ring was there? Can you lor
give me? bo forgive me, and then I ran
forgiveyou. We ll notthinkabout back tell it any¬
more, will we? I came to you
so—dear.”
Then he put both arms about her, and
kissed her softly before they went out
into the night.
All this was a year ago.
The diamond is on otigenie’s finger
now, and daily letters fly hack and forth,
letters long and tender, but which, with
May’s first flowers, w 11 cease, for then it
is their wedding-day will come.— Chicago
Current.
Persian Superstitions.
There are many and cur i 0U s supersti
tions in p ergia . Without meaning to
exbaus t the sub ject I will give you some
of the more peculiar ones. Tiie “baade
k h a dem‘” which is the approximately of ren
dered in English by would term be translated evi eye,
though literally plays it the largest in this
‘‘evil step,” part
line . The evil eye is believed in by every
body in Persia, the highest as well as the
lowes t. A baby Ig healthy and pretty,
A friend of the mother admires the little
one in gl0 wing terms. That would be
“baade khadem'’—or evil omen—and
would be taken as a diabolical design to
i n j ure the child if the phrase “Eenshal
lah” (may it please Godj were not added
to every eulogium An old woman looks
at the child from the chill right-hand side
evil eye again. The stumbles early
j u the morning—evil eye. The father,
by acciden t ,’ speaks first to the baby at
sunrise—evil . eye. A girl, pretty well
mann ered, healthy, with a good dowry,
ig we dded to a man. The first business
undertaking of the young benedict turns
out dlS astrously—evil eye! Nothing
could induce that man to keep his young
wife. She is “baade khadem to him,
ttnd she ’ a go t to go. willy nilly. As the
divorce law is such that it virtually lies
with the husband alone to keep or send
away Is uis wife, and as the ceremony it
ge lf very simple, and requires neither
time nor money, he soon gets rid of her.
Nobody blames him. “She was ‘baade
kba dem’ to him,” everybody says in ex
'
p P i a nation, and that’s enough.
The shah has appointed a very able
and deserving man to an important posi
tion. for which his previous qualify experience him.
and hig capacity eminently
On the same day the Shah happens to
overfeed himself with lamb and raw cu
cumbers, and has an attack of colic. The
new appointee is blamed. He is “baade
kba dem,” Very and incontinently gets the
sack . E y thing is judged himself in this wav. and
If a man ha made a fool ot
run to too great expense in entertaining
a guest, for instance, the blame is put on
one of the ladies of hig andaroun, on his
head servant . 0 r somebody else, and that
one is made to suffer. Astrology
adshim), the horoscope (taleh). the rosay
(tesbin) used as an oracle, and the Koran,
the poets, especially baadi and Han*,
used j n tbe same way play also a most im
portant role in the life of the modern
Persian. In all doubtful cases, called
technically “istekharet,” recoqrse is had
to one or the other orto all of them. A
man is in doubt whether to purchase a
horse ho desires. Dealer and custom*,
resort to the nearest house of a mollah
and the Koran is opened at random. II
the eye happens to alight on such a pas
sage as “liappv Alla/wiU art thou, oh . on of th<
for bless thee,” the put
chase is effected. If Dot, not,
THE HOME DOCTOR.
Remedy for Chilblains,
following is a sure cure: Take a
handful of dried peach leaves and i our
boiling Water on them, and let them
stand till cool enough not to burn the
patient; then place the feet in that water
fifteen minutes. DO this two or three
times and it will effect A cure. Now is
the time to gather the leaves before the
frost touches them.
Headache Caused by Poor Ven¬
tilation.
Many persons on coming from church
complain of headache. This is caused
by tiie action of the impure blood on
the brain, due to the accumulation of
carbolic acid gas in the air of poorly effect ven¬
tilated churches. and The pernicious system is
upon the brain nervous
very aptly illustrated by the drowsy,
li.-tless attitude of the scholars in a poor¬
ly ventilated school room as compared
with the bright and animated appear
ance of the children in a neighboring ventilated.
room that has been carefully of
Ca: e til attention to the ventilation
churches and schools will prevent much
of the inattention and sleepiness
observed during the afternoon
session ..—Ilealtn and Home.
Health Hints.
it is notalways necessary to have teeth
extracted when they ache. The nerve
may be diseased and the tooth still per
fectly sound.
In a case of slight sore throat, let a
little powdered borax be placid on the
tongue, and allowed to dissolve and run
down the throat.
“Enough is as good as a feast.” Re¬
member that it is better to leave the ta¬
ble a little hungry than to suffer the
pangs of indigestion after eating heartily.
The habit of continual spitting which
attend-, the chewing of tobacco and gums,
induces debility, not only of the salivary
glands, but of the system generally.
Keep your si ening rooms well aired
even in this cold weather. Many a bead
ache and unpleasant taste in th mouth is
caused by sleeping in impure atmos¬
phere. and apparently effective
A new
method of treating consumption physicians. is now It
attracting the notice of
is by in jecting remedies directly into the
lungs bh means of a hypdermic syringe.
The needle is passed through the walls
of the chest, and it is the aim to bring
the remedus as near the affected spot in
the lungs as possible. Some very good
results are report d, carbolized iodine
having appeared to work to the best ad¬
vantage.
To select a room for a sick person, care
should be taken to have it exposed to im¬ as
little external noise as possible, greatly as ini,li¬
pressions made on the ear
enee the nervous system. Likewise
select a spacious, well ventilated apart¬
ment, that has iu it no unnecessary fur
niture. Great care is necessary in reg¬
ulating the light of a sick room,although
it is not often necessary to exclude all
light. The rule is, a strong light stimu¬
lates the action of the brain, while a
moderate light is soothing to it.
Deafness and impaired hearing are
frequently caused by an accumulation of
hardened wax upon the external surface
of the drum of the ear. Never attempt pin
to remove this with the head of a or
a hair pin. As an eminent doctor of
Paris once remarked to one of his pa¬
tients, “amen should never put anything
in his ear smaller than his elbow.” Wax
and foreign substances can nearly always
be removed by dropping into the ear a
few drops of olive oil, a little warm, and,
after letting it remain awhile, syringing
the ear with warm soap suds.
The Fishing Frog.
Tbe fishing frog, or sea devil, as it is
sometimes called, owing doubtless to its
repulsive appearance, is conspicuous
principally for its peculiar method of al¬
luring its prey, Its head is of enormous
size, aud the feature that is not lea-t pro¬
nounced is its prodigious mouth, which
extends, not from ear to ear, but half
way round the front part of its head, and
is fortified with rows of teeth which may
be raised or depres-ed at will, according
as the prey is entering captiviiy. or striving Along to es¬
cape from its place head of found three long
the top of the are
filaments ^ tne first _ . of , wmch . . , terminates . . .
in a bait-bke appendage, and which may
be waved in any direction
Fishes are attracted by the motion of
this object, and when sufficiently near,
the mouth is opened destruction, and the prey is
sucked in to its own
The stomach is distensible loan ex
taordinary degree, and frequently fishes
are discovered therein which are nearly
equal in weight and size to the fishing
frog itself.
The head is provided with . L a moss-like
fringe, which extends around its entire
circumference, and which enables it to
conceal itself easly among the seaweeds
and mosses on tue bottom of the sea,
where it is its pleasure and custom to ex¬
tend and bury itself in waitforitsvic
tim. .-ScientiJieAmeMean.
A Clever Business Woman.
Biding with me through a thriving
Maine town, recently, a friend indicated
a large tannery and remarked: -That
establishment has an entertaining story.
Its founder bu.lt up a large business and
willed it to his daughter, instructing his
executors to permit her to manage the
business herself. The neighbors bntthe pre
dieted a collapse of the concern;
girl proved to be even a better business
man than her father, and cleared *7.000
the first year, she ran it several years
and then a minister settled in town, who
took to her. The taking was mutual,
lie married her, left the ministry snow
running drfve-tbe the tannery with his wife s help
and Enciest team in town.”
LtwUw (Me.) Journal.
DUMBER 50.
“ Let There Be No Strife,”
DR. TALMAGE TELLS MARRIED PEOPLE
HOW TO SETTLE RELIGIOUS
DIFFERENCES.
On Sunday Mr. Talmage read for his
text Genesis, xiii.. 8, 9 - “ Let there be
no strife, I prav thee, between me and
thee, and between my herd men and t hy
herdmen. is not the whole land be¬
fore t ee?” The preacher described
the difaculty which had arisen between
tbe hetdmen of Abraham and Lot a
difficulty which Lot had the weakness
to make a personal question between
h mself and his udc e Abraham. The
narrowmindedness and the selfishness
of the nephew were set forth and
brought into broad belief by contrast
with the dignity and magnanimous subject un¬
selfishness of the uncle. Ihe
present in the passage of Scripture road
bad a singular application, said the
preacher, to this broad land of ours,
and especia ly in the matter of religion.
IVhat names and denominations we had!
V hat. a variety of creeds! IV bat room
fof choice! ' YVhy raise difficulties
about trifles? The whole land was be¬
fore them, with all the creeds in Chris¬
tendom. They could have their choice.
“Let there be no strife between us.”
“Is not the whole land before thee?
If we ultimately arrived safe at the
grand central depot of the universe
Heaven—it would be a small i ueAKm
whether we came by the broad or l he
narrow gauge. accord¬
It was an important question, should be the
ing to the preacher, what
rule when wife diffeie.1 from husband
or when husband differed from wife in
reiigious matters. Should the wife go
With the husband, or should the hus¬
band go with the wife ? Dr. Talmage
took the ground that there was saving
influence in each of the evangelical if
churches; and lie argued, first, ^ that
one or the other was not a ( hristian, it
was the duty of the one who was to
make every sacrifice to save the other.
“Mighty God!” the and preacher his Rands ex¬
claimed raising his eyes
to heaven, “is it conceivable that i?ny
one will stickle about trifles, as names,
denoniinatioiJs, creed, litanies, forms
and methods of baptism and such like,
when an immortal soul is iu peril ?’’
The preacher argued in the second
place that if either Husband or wife was
too rigidly sectarian to believe that sal¬
vation was outside the church of her or
his preference it was the duty of the
stronger minded and the more generous
to yield to the other.
“I like them all,” said Dr. Talmage.
“I could live with them all, worship
with them ail, preach to them all, be
happy with them all. I suppose I must
have bceii born near the line. I know
nothing ot sectarian sentiment. I like
the liturgy of Episcopacy, the warmth
of the Methodists, the liberty of the
Congregationalists and the strength of
Presbyterianism.” argued in the third place that
It was should
if both were stubborn then they it
agree to differ. Let each go where
was most agreeable. Let them avoid
wr amrling before their children and be¬
fore their servants. And then about the
children Let them choose for them
selves. The ____ children were often quite
as able to decide as their parents, and it
was often found that the children
brought about agieements upon church
questions when all other means failed.
After all, the great matter was not creed,
but salvation.
DESSIC TED PORK.
“Give me a little more of the wood
buck, please, my dear,” says Funny
to his better half at breakfast.
“ oodchuck! What do you mean ?
"here’s uo meat but sausage on the
able.”
“Perhaps that’s the article. They
iscd to call it woodchuck when I was a
iov Ground hog, you know.”— Chi¬
a /o Ken s
T'O LATE.
A Belleville, Ill., servant girl went to
leap one afternoon and did not wake
ip until forty hours later. A hen she
■woke she was naturally much incensed
to find that shc had been defrauded out
of two evenings out .—boelon Tran
.1 ript. _______
Wiiitrock (Jim Cummings) gave up
the coal business to go into the train
robbing industry. Tiie transition was
easy from a light-weigh-man to a high¬
wayman.
Trouble Ahead.
When the appetite fails, and sleep grows
restless and uurefreshing, there is trouble
ahead. Thc digestive organs, when healthy,
cra/e food, the nervous system, when vigorous
and tranquil, gives its possessor no uneasiness
at night. A tonic, to bo effective, should not
he a mere appetizer, nor are the nerves to bo
strengthened and soothed by the unaided ac¬
tion of a sedative or a narcot'e. What is re¬
quired is a medicine which invigorates the
stomat h. and promotes assimilation of food by
thc syotem, by which means the nervous sys
tem. as well as other parts of the plv sicai or¬
ganism, are strengthened. Thc3e are the ef¬
fects of Hosfetter’s Stomach Hitters, a medi
cin<’ whose reputatioa is founded firmly in
public confidence, and which ph siciaus com¬
mend for iis tonic, anti-bilious and other prop¬
erties. It is used with rite best results in lever
and ague, rheumatism, kidney and uterine
weakness, and other maladies.
sce the scoundrel in your face,” ex
clairaed the judge to the prisoner. “1
reckon ^ ^ j edge b ” was the response, “thai
’ reflect i ain’t it?’
& e gonal on ,
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